As happy as I should be for what this can do out of the box at <$200,
I, of course, am after it's very best as an OCer.

After a short bit of messing with BIOS,
I find the only way of clocking up anything is with the use of "Lab Burst Mode".
MSI's own little setting,
which I've read is to apply straps to un-seen peripherals when the base clock gets to 133Mhz+.

Well, it certainly sets the reference frequency loose,
as I've managed a stress-stable system on a 165Mhz core reference.
This allows me to run:

CPU @ 4460Mhz
iGPU @ 990Mhz
RAM @ 2200Mhz (9-9-9-24 1T)

Great, right?
Stock voltages for the CPU and NB make it kinda unbelievable. (1.65v for RAM, tho)
And even better that the benchmarks reflect it, too.
Unlike other known "fake OCs" with locked APU.

Now upon entering the real-world of PC usage,
I find one very apparent issue when watching videos:

They play at a sporadic ~65-80fps instead of 60fps.
And I do see sort of "micro-stutters" now and again in the videos.

I can confirm that "Lab Burst Mode" is solely responsible,
as BIOS at default otherwise will still cause this issue.

My questions are these:

What is "Lab Burst Mode" doing to break the FPS limits like nothing I've seen before?
If you don't know, could you guess...?

Is there anything I could do that may fix/counter this behavior?

And finally--

How can I rightfully confirm my OCs are true?
Benchmarks and wristwatches are lining up as I'm told they would not if fake,
but I'm having trouble believing it completely.

These DIMMs didn't do this well with 2 other boards and APUs,
but my Samsung 30nm did.
On this setup, it's the other way around.
Almost as if these Ripjaws and mobo/APU are soul mates or something... (lol)Edited by Rezard - 3/28/13 at 10:47pm

These DIMMs didn't do this well with 2 other boards and APUs,
but my Samsung 30nm did.
On this setup, it's the other way around.
Almost as if these Ripjaws and mobo/APU are soul mates or something... (lol)

I think, if this is true, that you hit some sort of jackpot on components. I must say that I am confused as to how this could happen...